The 3/4" face was done till 1914 and after that date they were married at the halfway point!! I think it is one of the photos of those links!! Anyway it indicates that mine was made after 1914. Some had a steel plate on top about 3/4" thick, others appear to have a steel top that goes about halfway down the anvil and they were married together as the anvil was cast and the other has a steel plate about 1 1/2" - 2" thick on it! I first thought mine was one of those with a 3/4" steel plate, however while painting it I hit the anvil with a haze coat, sorta a primer coat and the line where the top half of the anvil was married to the bottom mild steel base shows well. However there are three different markers, that also can help to date a Hay Budden. Alan has access to the serial numbers which can pretty much nail down the date of the anvil. Here are a couple of links to another forum and a thread where a lot of the history of Hay Buddens was discussed!Īlan Longmire and Geoff Keyes from that forum are both very knowledgeable about anvils. This is a way of preserving some of the history!
I could only see some of what was on mine! After doing the research on it I used what I could see and from pics of I re-created the full lettering and hand painted the logo and weight mark on it!! Don't ask me why, because it don't make the anvil any better but, I like history. You would have thought they would have marked them better.
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